—The Daily Collegian Friday, Oct. 20,1978
Managers say no apartment shortage downtown
By CLIFF BASSMAN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Although enrollment is at a peak and
an excess of students applied for this
year’s dormitory space, there seems to
be no shortage of off-campus housing for
students at University Park.
In fact, a quite different situation has
been recognized by managers of several
State College apartment complexes.
Art Campbell, property management
director of Heim, Heckendorn and Bruce
realtors, said there has been less of a
demand for his firm’s units this year
than in previous years.
“Where we have vacancies now, we
had none before,” Campbell said.
A similar condition was noticed by
Carmen Dabiero, general manger of
A.W. & Son Inc., another of State
College’s larger realty firms.
The influx of tenants never reached
the anticipated amount, Dabiero said.
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Parkway Plaza, which was filled last
year, has several vacancies, he said.
Scott Anderson, manager of Laurel
Glen Apartments, said he thinks many
students come to school without definite
living arrangements and are then ab
sorbed into larger apartments as extra
roommates.
Students have been showing a
preference for two and three-bedroom
apartments instead of smaller units, as
was the trend in recent years, Anderson
said.
Pearl Weiner, general manager for
Lions Gate Apartments, said she has
noticed an increase in demand for one
bedroom and efficiency apartments.
Lions Gate has very few vacancies!
she said.
Weiner said many complexes are
faced with vacant units because some
owners fail to understand that students
live on limited incomes.
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College, but there is a shortage of af
fordable apartments, she said.
Campbell said increased apartment
sharing could account for the decrease
in demand for individual units.
"Where there were one or two people
renting a one-bedroom apartment
before, there are now two or three,” he
said.
“If one additional roommate is put in
one-tenth of the apartments off
campus,” Campbell said, “1,000 people
can be absorbed.”
Phil Grosnick, assistant director of
Residential Life programs, said total
enrollment has been increasing by a few
hundred students each year. Although
conclusive figures are not yet prepared,
enrollment this term should follow the
trend, he said.
Demand for dormitory housing also
increased this year and 1,200 applicants
for dorm contracts were rejected by the
University, Grosnick said.
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Mike Leeper, vice president of the
Organization for Town Independent
Students, said the number of requests
for apartment information his group
received from students who were denied
dorm contracts was twice last year's
figure.
Grosnick said the increased apart
ment sharing and the greater demand
for dorm rooms are responses to
economic conditions. When increases in
the cost of living and schooling itself are
compounded by rent hikes, financing an
education can become difficult for many
students, he said.
For this reason, many who
wished to trasfer to University Park
from a branch campus but were not
admitted to the dorms, may have
remained at the branch for another
term, Grosnick said.'
Currently there are about 18,000
students living off-campus, compared to
12,700 in the dorms, Leeper said.
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University enrollment may be at its peak, but there appears to be no shortage
of off-campus housing for students, according to several State College apart
ment managers.